Current and previous main positions: Full Professor, University of Palermo (UniPA), Palermo, Italy Vice-Rector for Student Life (UniPA) Rector Delegate for Sicilian Biomedical District (UniPA) Chief of the Center for the Enhancement of the Corpse Donated to Science (UniPA) President (Honorific), Italian Society of Experimental Biology (SIBS), Italy Scientific Director (Honorific), Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy Associate Member (Honorific), Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UTMB, Galveston (TX), USA Adjunct Professor (Honorific), Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia (PA), USA - - Senior Fellow (Honorific), Cell Stress Society International, USA